Making change happen
We are committed to caring for our world today and safeguarding it for future generations. Innovating cleaner energy solutions through Greener Upgrades™ and enabling our customers to make the switch to more sustainable solutions. Going further, faster to accelerate the transition to Net Zero emissions. For everyone’s benefit.
Tomorrow’s energy transition starts today. To proceed with purpose, we must first understand the impact of our operations. We have completed an assessment of our operations and established our 2021 emissions baseline. Giving us an understanding of the carbon footprint of our business in every region.
This foundation was the starting point to provide awareness of our scope 1, 2 and 3 greenhouse gas emissions, project future emissions and identify opportunities to decarbonise. External factors mean every country faces its own challenges and each has a different pace of acceleration on the path to Net Zero. This has enabled us to create a bespoke transition roadmap and timescale for each region that feeds into two overarching goals. These goals encompass our ambition to make a difference and unite us all on our journey to Net Zero. We will continue to monitor and report on our progress throughout our journey and continually look for opportunities to influence change.
A local approach
We start from the ground up, with dedicated sustainability teams supporting each region of North America, Europe, the Middle East & Africa, Asia Pacific and Latin America. Local frameworks, unique to each region, shape variations in policies to ensure effective integration and engagement. All united and driven by the same overarching company targets.
We believe that investing in an embedded integrated structure will bring us a step closer to better understanding our customers’ energy requirements. This will enable us to identify opportunities to deliver commercial benefits to our customers as we help them to progress with their own sustainability goals.
We have also aligned our approach with the UN Global Compact and the UN Sustainable Development Goals underlining
our commitment to drive change and monitor our impact.
A global approach
Alongside our bespoke local frameworks, we’re adopting a number of global initiatives to further accelerate change at scale across our organisation.
Enabling change
We understand the challenges our customers face to lower carbon emissions and reach Net Zero. That’s why we’re committed to offering flexible and sustainable power, energy and temperature control solutions through our
Greener Upgrades™ initiative. Helping everyone strike the right balance between planet and profit.
Greener Upgrades™ initiative. Helping everyone strike the right balance between planet and profit.
How we are enabling change
Each year we’re investing millions of pounds in cleaner technologies and services which will help reduce costs, improve efficiency and reduce emissions. In 2022 alone we invested over £169 million, helping our customers balance resilience with reduction and enabling sustainability to drive commercial success. Through our investment we will increase adoption of cleaner technology to accelerate the pace of change, securing long-term competitiveness and sustainability.
We never stand still. We continue to innovate, applying critical thinking to develop technologies and solutions that solve real-world challenges, whilst maximising efficiency.
We're transitioning the refrigerants we use in our temperature control fleet to lower impact refrigerants, ensuring compliance with local regulations.
We’re focussed on enabling customers to meet their own Net Zero ambitions and helping communities to thrive. From facilitating low carbon construction to building sustainability into their own operations, Greener Upgrades™ provides customers with the knowledge they need to choose the right solution for them. Our principles are simple. We invest in the latest products, use our expertise to apply them in the most efficient way and leverage technology to optimise asset performance when delivering solutions for our customers. Hybridising for maximum efficiency, with unique controls that optimise performance monitoring capability.
We have carried out extensive research into alternative fuels, such as biodiesel and biofuels which have environmental benefits today. Looking ahead, we’re trialling future fuels such as hydrogen and bio-methanol in our facilities and on customer live sites, gathering essential real-world data. We’re also investing in our own equipment to ensure it is fuel agnostic, providing greater flexibility to our customers.
Through Greener Upgrades™, we’re making the latest energy solutions accessible to all. To encourage early industry adoption of our newer technologies we’re trialling new solutions and techniques with key partners and producing detailed reporting. Giving our customers an informative, balanced view of the results.
Making a difference through digitalisation
Technology is a huge part of our evolution. We develop our own controls to ensure our equipment has bespoke, sophisticated operating capabilities, optimising our solutions at the highest level. Our tools and monitoring software deliver data driven insights to maximise asset performance and effect action. We are providing our customers with even more insight into emissions, fuels and energy use. Recommending more efficient solutions, making it easier for them to switch to Greener Upgrades™.
